Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-15
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.


OF $50.
Fresh eggs at Deadwocd are selling at 55
cents per dozen.
The public school at Glenullin has closed
for the winter.
A Yankton committee is trying to arrange
fremen's fair.
Hermosa, Custer county, is to have a 10000
Touring mill.
Wolves are attacking farmers Ia the vicin-
fly Of Bon Homme.
Fifty-one cases were tried at the late term
OF court at Wahpeton.
Grand Forks expended sl0S, 900 in improve
ments the past year.
The authorities OF Hurley are sitting down
solid on the gamblers.
A matrimonial dancing club Is the latest
social freak AT Bismarck.
County officers elected In November as
sumed their duties Jan. 3.
Mass meetings are being held by the
churches of WATERFOWL.
A Presbyterian church was organized at Es-
telline with twelve members.
There are sixty-four paid up members IL the
Rapid City Board Of Trade.
Pinafore packed an opera house at Rapid
City several nights last week.
The saloon men OF Lincoln County met In
conference at Lenox last week.
The new roller mill at Wentworth will be In
running order In about two weeks.
The Agricultural society OF Grand Forks
county owes 81, las in premiums.
The longest t~oboggan slide In the world is
the 1000 foot one at Bismarck.
The home Of Mrs. Heinz, near Parker, was
destroyed by fire the other u,,ht.
The Northern Pacific will rednce it's pas
senger rate to four cents a mile after Jan. /.
Indians are said TO have sold $500 worth OF
beaver and other furs in Forest City recently.
The t~oboggan slide at Sioux Falls will have
a waiting room attachment at the top OF the
hill.
The Sioux Falls National bank has sent out
to its friends handsomes souvenirs rs Christmas
gifts.
The Abercrombie elevators have refused to
receive more wheat, as they have no place to
put 1t.
The roller mills at Yankton have shortened
the running hours on account OF a scarcity of
wheat.
The Deadwood Pioneer claims that it takes
wo bundles and a half Of paper to print Its
daily edition.
At Taylor, north Dakota, the mercury
scored thirty-eight below zero the day after
Christmas.
A Pierre boy has a crop Of nine st. Bernard
pups, which he sells for twenty-five dollars
apiece.
A considerable sum has been subscribed for
Ii new Congregational church building at
Beresford.
Bndgewater Is estimated to have spent
about 81, 500 In building improvements during
the past year.
Dan Scott has returned to Sioux Falls dis.
couraged over his effort to find a better place
than Dakota.
w. l.. Roberts, living near Ellisville, had
both legs amputated the other day on account
OF being badly frozen.
Grand Forks G.. A.. Il. post sends a copy of
its appropriate resolutions to the family OF
the late Gen. Logan.
IA suioon ilNShoS SApiNt III iih'oib ~
the 3lst ult. The people of that county have
voted to issue no more.
The postofflce inspector found a deficiency
Of $3.50 in the accounts of the Darlington
postmaster, which sum his bondsmen had to
pay.
Native lay at Deadwood is s25 per ton,
while the Nebraska product, which sells in the
state from & to s. per ton, rctails at from S2t
to $50.
The president on Wednesday nominated
Jas. Spencer, OF White Hall, n. Y, to be
associate justice of the supreme court of Da
kota.
BY the assistance OF the mayors vote the
city council OF Rapid City rejected a motion
on the 27th ult. TO reduce saloon license from
$500 to $500.
The new board OF county commissioners OF
Woonsoeket, by a unanimous vote refused to
grant saloon license in Sanborn county dur.
ing the year 1887.
Aberdeen News, 3lst: Hon. l.. q. Johnson
returned from his Washington tripthis morn.
ing, looking quite good.natured. He will re-
main here for some time.
The Grand Forks light guard have received
an invitation from the National Rifles of
Washington to attend q full dress ball In that
city on January 6.
A. NJ. Andrews, editor Of the ~Plankinton
Standard, who has been postmaster since the
town started, resigned and an old line Demo
crat now bolds the fort
The county seat OF Sargent county has
nnally ueen decided to be at Forman, and the
county officers and their appurtenances have
been removed there from Minor.
The Pierre Journal takes Rapid City to task
because 1t has not contributed toward the fund
being created for the furtherance Of the Dawes
bill to open the Sioux reservation.
The entire saloon and gambling element of
Faulkton has been arrested and bound over 10
appear at the next term of court. All gamb.
ling implements found were destroyed.
j. II. King has purchased for the North
western Railroad company a townsite adjoin-
ing The tow Of Mennesela, In Butte county,
Black Hills, together with a water power.
Al Sioux Falls the members OF the Ford
Dramatic company presented Mr.. Ford with a
very handsome diamond ring, as a token of
their appreciation Of his qualities both as a
friend and actor.
Dakota's new governor, Judge Lewis X.